No one ever said it was going to be easy...

June 26, 2010

TGIFU

I have to giggle at all the TGIF!!!!! tweets and Facebook updates because I honestly can't even remember the last time I ever said that. When you're a stay-at-home-mom or even a work-at-home-mom, then for the most part, Saturday is just the same as Friday, except it's sort of worse because in your mind it should be different than Friday, with your husband home for two straight days and all.

But alas, I'm awake at o' dark thirty with the kids, making breakfast, and already breaking up fights just like it's any other day, all while trying to catch up on emails, finish up a book proposal, and unclog a toilet that had an apparently larger-than-I-thought piece of a magic eraser shoved down it.

But today I've found a wide open bag of now stale chips on the counter, a pile of dirty pots still in the sink, and a very, very brave man still asleep in the bed.

Okay, so I'm wrong, it is a little different. But as you may be able to attest to, it's certainly not anything worthy of an acronym, unless it's WTF!!!!!!!!!!

Great post, love 'o dark thirty, comments also making me laugh. I find it excruciating how his Dad can sleep in no problem for a good 5 hours past when we are up. Yet if I even try to sleep for an extra ten minutes "Mommy up. Mommy up" and blankets pulled off.

I love the point some made, Karen (Submommy) and others about how it's actually more annoying than a weekday. I do find myself absolutely illl-tempered on Saturdays, always having that fantasy that it will be just slightly easier, and when it's not, and I can't even dream of a second to myself, (even during naptime when of course Daddy's FINALLY up) I get livid.

YES! YES! YES! (and, oh how I wish I was saying that for some other reason...)

Some days I think that it's actually EASIER when my husband isn't home. At least on those days I'm not annoyed that he's laying on the couch, watching cartoons with the kids, and not doing the list of things I think he should be doing.

And it's not as if my kids seem to notice that daddy's home. At least not right away, anyway. They still come bursting into the bedroom at the crack of dawn yelling out my name-even when it's my morning to sleep in. (though, bless my husband, he did hustle thme out of the room first thing yesterday-right after my daughter walked in and yelled MOMMY)

I am going to vote that as working mom, weekends no longer mean what they did when I was younger. They now just mean I have to get more cleaning done and try to catch up sleep, and try to keep a kid entertained. I am the one that gets up early, most weekends, and I plan activities. Someone still thinks that he should get to have downtime on the weekend. As if.

I so agree.When you are a SAHM or WAHM Mommy, it really is same shit different day. The only thing different here is that Daddy is in town and sleeping in..which makes me a little envious, a little pissed off and a little homicidal!Aww, the joys of Motherhood.Happy Mothering!Now, make Daddy have a Daddy /kids day and you go sneak in a nap!

Definitely! Was up at 6:30 this morning with my little one, who decided that he didn't need dinner last night, and therefore was about starved by that time. We then crept about and watched more than a little TV just to keep him quiet until Papi finally surfaced at about 9am, by which time I was about ready to go back to bed myself...